Medical Doctor Program year 2025 Reported 2019–2025 Source: CMS Open Payments, 2026 publication

Nikhil Verma

Sports Medicine Chicago, IL Medical Doctor

NPI 1659350353 CMS profile 346773

1611 W Harrison St, Ste 400, Chicago, IL 60612

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General payments

$646,781

378 records reported · program years 2019–2025

Research payments

$0

Paid to them · None reported · program years 2019–2025

Ownership & investment interest

$0

None reported

Research they led as principal investigator

$378,509 paid to institutions, not to them · program years 2019–2023

Through program year 2025, Nikhil Verma of Chicago, IL is reported in the CMS Open Payments database as having received $646,781 across 378 general payments and $0 in research payments paid to them. Separately, studies naming them as principal investigator received $378,509 in research payments, paid to institutions rather than to them.

No combined total General, research and ownership are kept apart. Each is reported under its own rules, and ownership is not money that moved at all but the value of a stake held. A meal, a clinical trial grant and a shareholding do not add up to anything meaningful, so this site does not add them. The principal-investigator line is research money paid to institutions for studies they led — not to them — and is not added to anything either.

General payments for this record sit in the 97th percentile of Sports Medicine profiles with reported payments. Percentile describes the distribution, not the conduct.

By program year

7 rows
Year Kind Relative to this record's peak year Amount Records
2025 General $187,997 51
2024 General $114,221 63
2023 General $74,517 65
2022 General $101,336 96
2021 General $103,671 63
2020 General $32,620 24
2019 General $32,418 16

Beside peers

Year by year, beside peers General payments · among profiles paid that year
  • Nikhil Verma
  • Sports Medicine median
  • Middle half of Sports Medicine
  • National median

In program year 2025, general payments to Nikhil Verma were reported at $187,997. Among 2,404 Sports Medicine profiles paid that year, the median was $664 and the middle half received between $172 and $3,055.

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Year Nikhil Verma Sports Medicine median Middle half National median
2019 $32,418 $1,176 $199–$4,249 $163
2020 $32,620 $708 $96–$2,890 $114
2021 $103,671 $1,213 $152–$3,994 $132
2022 $101,336 $1,230 $159–$3,998 $149
2023 $74,517 $584 $146–$2,836 $160
2024 $114,221 $628 $163–$3,168 $164
2025 $187,997 $664 $172–$3,055 $169

Breakdown

Who paid General payments · program years 2019–2025
  1. Arthrex, Inc. $270,913 116 payments
  2. Stryker Corporation $200,255 162 payments
  3. Smith+Nephew, Inc. $167,236 53 payments
  4. Graymont Professional Products IP, LLC $5,000 1 payment
  5. Relievant Medsystems, Inc. $694 2 payments
  6. Abbott Laboratories $641 8 payments
  7. Spinal Simplicity, LLC $574 5 payments
  8. Breg, Inc $341 4 payments
  9. Nalu Medical, Inc. $222 3 payments
  10. Ossur Americas., Inc $124 1 payment
  11. Other $781 23 payments

Every payment, record by record

What the payments were for General payments · program years 2019–2025
  1. Royalty or License $395,974 69 payments
  2. Consulting Fee $193,091 85 payments
  3. Compensation for services other than consulting, including serving as faculty or as a speaker at a venue other than a continuing education program $40,485 15 payments
  4. Travel and Lodging $8,942 56 payments
  5. Food and Beverage $8,196 152 payments
  6. Education $94 1 payment
Products named General payments · program years 2019–2025
  1. Arthrex Upper Extremity - Implants - Biceps - FiberTak - Tensionable Knotless $190,057 8 payments
  2. Arthrex Upper Extremity - Instruments - Rotator Cuff - CuffMend - Spreaders $95,029 4 payments
  3. BICEPTOR $58,787 20 payments
  4. ALPHAVENT $53,215 11 payments
  5. Arthrex Upper Extremity - Implants - Biceps - FiberTak $49,294 4 payments
  6. Arthrex Upper Extremity - Implants - Biceps - FiberTak $49,294 4 payments
  7. Arthrex Upper Extremity - Instruments - Rotator Cuff - CuffMend $49,294 4 payments
  8. INSPACE $37,000 36 payments
  9. ACUFEX DIRECTOR $34,171 11 payments
  10. Arthrex Upper Extremity - Implants - Rotator Cuff - CuffMend - Kits $30,795 1 payment
  11. Other $241,604 190 payments

A payment can name more than one product, so these amounts overlap and do not add up to the general-payment figure.

Billing to Medicare

Part B · data year 2024 · 57 billing codes

Paid by Medicare

$147,292

Of which drugs: $14,195

Medicare patients

375

Average age 72

Services billed

9,506

207 women, 168 men among their patients

Share of this provider's Medicare patients with each condition
Condition among their Medicare patients Relative to the most common Share of patients
Arthritis 72%
High blood pressure 67%
Ischemic heart disease 28%
Osteoporosis 19%
Diabetes 18%
Depression 17%
Cancer 14%
Atrial fibrillation 13%
Drugs given in the clinic that this provider billed Medicare Part B for
Drug given in the clinic Where Patients Services Paid by Medicare
Injection, triamcinolone acetonide, preservative-free, extended-release, microsphere formulation, 1 mg J3304 Office 11 448 $6,159
Injection, methylprednisolone acetate, 1 mg J1010 Office 79 7,840 $793
Injection, methylprednisolone acetate, 40 mg J1030 Office 25 57 $277

Medicare Part B only: services billed to Medicare. Rows covering fewer than 11 beneficiaries are not published. Only drugs given in the clinic are itemised here; the rest of what this provider billed is in the total above.

Records

378 reported

Every payment, record by record

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An ownership interest is different from the other two. It is not a payment: it is a stake — shares, options, a partnership holding — that a physician or an immediate family member held in a manufacturer during that year. The figure shown is what the stake was reported to be worth.

Research payments frequently pass through a clinician to the institution running a trial, and rarely represent personal income. They should be read differently from general payments.

Provenance

Source: CMS Open Payments · through program year 2025

Data current to program year 2025, from CMS's 2026 publication.

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